Pennsboro, WV
Pennsboro wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Pennsboro at the 43rd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (modestly above the national average for wildfire risk), a figure built from 687 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Pennsboro at the 44th national percentile — 1 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Pennsboro's building exposure, zone by zone
USFS puts 60.3% of Pennsboro's 687 buildings in the Indirect exposure zone, versus 39.7% Direct and 0% Minimal — a place where the fire doesn't need to reach the structure directly for embers to.
Pennsboro against the rest of the country
Inside West Virginia, Pennsboro sits at just the 23rd percentile even though it scores 43rd nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Pennsboro ranks 18,014 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 14,803 by building count (1 is largest). Within West Virginia alone, it ranks 330 of 429 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for West Virginia on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Pennsboro
Pennsboro's elevated wildfire rating (43rd percentile) isn't the kind of score driving the carrier pullback making news in the highest-risk Western markets — but a standard homeowners quote is still worth comparing on its own terms.
What would actually reduce this score
Because 60.3% of Pennsboro's buildings sit in the Indirect zone, sealing the ember pathway (vents, roofing, gutters) is the intervention this page's data actually supports — see the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
The methodology guide shows exactly how USFS turned 687 counted buildings into the percentiles shown above for Pennsboro. For more on what indirect exposure implies beyond Pennsboro, see the exposure-zones guide.